Doug Rybczynski

Doug is a highly experienced and skilled professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry and more than 1,900 fight hours across 60 aircraft types. Doug is a graduate of the National Test Pilot School (NTPS), having graduated from the Professional Course as a Flight Test Engineer (FTE) and Experimental Test Pilot. His academic credentials include a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering from NTPS and Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Doug holds a current Inspection Authorization from the Van Nuys FSDO.

In his current role, Doug handles a variety of key responsibilities conducting instructional sorties, teaching master’s level courses, performing functional check flights, developing curriculum, and managing staff training. Prior to this he served as the Graduate Assistant Manager at NTPS where he led a UAV path planning research project to completion while leading the group of 7 Graduate Assistants. As a contractor, he has written an ODA-approved spin characteristics test plan, worked on multiple hydrogen-electric and fully electric technology demonstrator aircraft, and actively works in the local aerospace community on aircraft ranging from 2-stroke home-built aircraft to former military jets. As an instructor in the local area, he teaches from the Private Pilot to Flight Instructor levels and remains active flying both of his personally owned home-built aircraft. While working at NTPS, he was responsible for multiple structural, Human-Machine Interface, and electrical designs for instrumentation installations on training platforms and continues to sustain instrumentation capabilities as a technician and engineer.